‘US 20071 cu») United States 0227681 2) Patent Application Publication co) Pub. No.: US 2007/0102276 Al Lubman et al. (54) APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR WATER REGENERATION FROM WASTE (75) Inventors: Alex M. Ws), Hill, CA, Redondo Beach, CA len K. MacKnight, Signal 5); Volodimir G. Rifert Kiew (UA). ‘Zolotukhin, Kiev (UA); Vladimir 1, Usenko, Kiev (UA) Petr A. Barabash, Kiev (UA) Aleksandr P. Strikun, Kiev (UA) Comespondence Address HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. 101 COLUMBIA ROAD. P.O BOX 22. MORRISTO IN, NJ 07962-2245 (L ) (93) Assignee: ONEYWEL INC INTERNATIONAL, (21) Appl. Nos 1N271,674 @y File Nov. 9, 2008 Publication Classitieation (43) Pub. Date May 10, 2007 (32) USC 202/160; 2021238; 202/205; 202/173, on ABSTRACT A rotary nnul-stage distiller for recovery of water from wastewater is provided. The rotary muki-stage distiller of the present invention can recover Water from a wide variety fof aqueous wastewaters such as, but aot limited to, urine condensate from air conditioning systems, wash water con- taining foaming soaps, seawater or polluted water. The multi-stage distiller can operate under vacuum conditions permitting the distillation to occur at low temperatures. The ‘multi-stage distiller uses centrifvgal frees for fu pumping and for vaporfliguid separation. The multi-stage distiller comprises hydraulic seus for each stage which eliminate ‘contamination of elean, recovered water by condensed waste ‘water during the regeneration process. The multi-stage dis- tiller also comprises a stationary shaft of stacked segments where each segments associated with an individual stage of the multi-stage distiller. The number of slages therefore, of the multistage distiller of the present invention can be readily adjusted as needed by either adding a segment with 42 (200601 8 sage to the stationary salt or removing a sient ofthe “0 a6) shaft with a stage to decrease the numberof sages ‘WASTEWATER 10 12] couecTiy 2 .FRETREATIENT 14 16 18 S 1 rOTARY fouat MULTISTAGE | —"__ostuee 22 26 € LEAN WATER Mae BRINE TANK 2 WATER POUSHER oTABLE waTeR [24Patent Application Publication May 10,2007 Sheet 1 of 7 WASTEWATER 12~| COLLECTION & PRETREATMENT 14 \ 16 \ HEATER / muy COOLER MULTISTAGE = DISTILLER —_}[NON-CONDENSAALEY US 2007/0102276 AI A 10 18 S VACUUM PUMP lea CLEAN WATER TANK BRINE TANK 23 vom WATER POLISHER POTABLE WATER | 24 FIG. 1Patent Application Publication May 10,2007 Sheet 2 of 7 US 2007/0102276 AI 100 A 155 153 S710! 144 147 125 121 FIG. 2 136. 134. | 132